Forbes breaking news!! Apart from GE, Canonical is partnering with Acer , DataArt, and Microsoft to drive Snappy’s adoption. Acer, the aBeing series is a cross-platform smart center for consolidating and sharing intelligence, and controlling IoT devices. aBeing series offers a Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) platform for developers, which provides security, privacy protection, and helps lower costs.The prototype of Acer’s aBeing One cross-platform smart center incorporates Snappy Ubuntu Core.